mrspanstreppon
@jamiepeppard.bsky.social
it was something i said
Patel, not Bongino.
Gift link: NYT on Bondi appointing Missouri AG Andrew Baily as FBI Deputy Director. Curtains for Bongino!
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/u...
In Surprise Move, Trump Taps Missouri Attorney General to Help Run F.B.I.
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Patel, not Bongino.
Defense Under Secretary For Policy Elbridge Colby is married to the World Bank VP For Latin America who used to work for Bolsonaro & is friends with Ivanka & Jared. Colby has a lot to say about Venezuela.
I've heard that. Googled Colby & learned his wife is close w Javanka. Plus she's World Bank’s Vice President for Latin America.
www1.folha.uol.com.br/internaciona....
www1.folha.uol.com.br/internaciona....
www1.folha.uol.com.br
November 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Defense Under Secretary For Policy Elbridge Colby is married to the World Bank VP For Latin America who used to work for Bolsonaro & is friends with Ivanka & Jared. Colby has a lot to say about Venezuela.
First rate thread on the conflicting peace plans & the operators pushing them. Follow to the end.
Ukraine relations get even more chaotic. Two factions - Kushner/Witkoff and Vance/Driscoll - are both freelancing to set US policy: cutting out the State Dept, pushing Ukraine to surrender, then leaking to press to claim they are official. Why? Putin is desperate and has called in his assets. A 🧵 1/
November 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
First rate thread on the conflicting peace plans & the operators pushing them. Follow to the end.
Reposted by mrspanstreppon
For every ton of meth seized by CBP, there are approximately 19 more that make it through (literally true). Crazy that they're killing people hired to ferry cocaine to Trinidad while it's business as usual for America's exclusive suppliers of fentanyl and meth.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Officials at US-Mexico border seize $10.3m in meth hidden in lettuce shipment
CBP press release calls seized drugs and lettuce ‘a salad unfit for this year’s Thanksgiving table’
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
For every ton of meth seized by CBP, there are approximately 19 more that make it through (literally true). Crazy that they're killing people hired to ferry cocaine to Trinidad while it's business as usual for America's exclusive suppliers of fentanyl and meth.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
BOP (Federal Bureau of Prisons) is recruiting. Listened to BOP Deputy Director Joshua J. Smith's message. Must be mandatory for every Trump appointee to trash the Biden administration.
www.bop.gov/news/2025111...
www.bop.gov/news/2025111...
November 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
BOP (Federal Bureau of Prisons) is recruiting. Listened to BOP Deputy Director Joshua J. Smith's message. Must be mandatory for every Trump appointee to trash the Biden administration.
www.bop.gov/news/2025111...
www.bop.gov/news/2025111...
Maybe my guess is wrong but I still think it's odd Hegseth has maintained two not-for-profits with less than $50k in revenue for years. Vets For Freedom was the first NFP he was employed by & Vets For Freedom Educational Institute was first registered by Tera Dahl in 2009.
I wish someone would ask SECDEF Pete Hegseth why he is still filing 990-Ns for two 501c3s that have been dormant for more than 10 years. My guess was undisclosed child support.
November 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Maybe my guess is wrong but I still think it's odd Hegseth has maintained two not-for-profits with less than $50k in revenue for years. Vets For Freedom was the first NFP he was employed by & Vets For Freedom Educational Institute was first registered by Tera Dahl in 2009.
This Nov 19 NYT article about the Saudi wealth fund being low on cash didn't generate as much attention as it should have. Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/b...
Saudi Arabia’s Prince Has Big Plans, but His Giant Fund Is Low on Cash
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
This Nov 19 NYT article about the Saudi wealth fund being low on cash didn't generate as much attention as it should have. Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/b...
Overthrowing Maduro will be doing a favor for "our" oil companies - Rep Maria Salazar
Rep. Salazar: "We're gonna be doing a favor to us, to our children, to our economy, to our oil companies to be able to liberate. And to Venezuelans who wants to be free."
November 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Overthrowing Maduro will be doing a favor for "our" oil companies - Rep Maria Salazar
Mike Davis. Again.
Article III Project (A3P) founder Mike Davis, a close ally of Ed Martin, is wigging out over the dismissal of the court cases against James Comey & Leticia James. (Davis has said that A3P is advising Trump on judicial nominations.) 1/ x.com/mrddmia/stat...
November 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Mike Davis. Again.
Run a few errands, come home to find the Comey & James cases dismissed. More MAGA tears.
November 24, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Run a few errands, come home to find the Comey & James cases dismissed. More MAGA tears.
Mike Davis on the grand conspiracy case. Again.
November 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Mike Davis on the grand conspiracy case. Again.
"Artificial intelligence, meet artificial accounting." Jonathan Weil on Zuckerberg's very questionable accounting for a data center in Louisiana. Gift link:
www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai...
www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai...
AI Meets Aggressive Accounting at Meta’s Gigantic New Data Center
Favorable treatment off the balance sheet hinges on some convenient assumptions.
www.wsj.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
"Artificial intelligence, meet artificial accounting." Jonathan Weil on Zuckerberg's very questionable accounting for a data center in Louisiana. Gift link:
www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai...
www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai...
Keep in mind the Saudis established a beachhead in Miami from which to manage their interests in Central & South America this year.
Gift link: I sort of assumed Steve Witkoff knew the Kushner family but this Feb 24 2025 WP article about the Saudi investment conference in Miami confirmed Jared Kushner encouraged Witkoff to take the job w the Trump administration...
wapo.st/42dAJst
wapo.st/42dAJst
November 24, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Keep in mind the Saudis established a beachhead in Miami from which to manage their interests in Central & South America this year.
More on that "grand conspiracy" case the DOJ is cooking up in S. Florida. Mike Davis seems to have an awful lot to say about it as I've noted here previously.
Gift link to New York Times story...
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As Trump’s Inquisitors Face Scrutiny, a Divisive Figure Could Play a New Role
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:17 AM
More on that "grand conspiracy" case the DOJ is cooking up in S. Florida. Mike Davis seems to have an awful lot to say about it as I've noted here previously.
@dduff54.bsky.social Off to a good start!
Elise Stefanik was booed off stage by her own voters during her speech.
November 23, 2025 at 10:28 PM
@dduff54.bsky.social Off to a good start!
Was just thinking about Greenland. Don't forget Ronald Lauder has financial interests there & urged Trump to take over Greenland in a NY Post op-ed.
JD Vance and Peter Thiel are running a sustained operation out of the White House designed to acquire Greenland, either voluntarily or by force. Thiel has laid out plans for what he intends to do with the island nation in past writings. It doesn't entail the consent of the Greenlanders for anything.
November 23, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Was just thinking about Greenland. Don't forget Ronald Lauder has financial interests there & urged Trump to take over Greenland in a NY Post op-ed.
Jennifer Griffin's reporting is usually spot on. Not sure what she means by the Ukraine peace deal is linked to impending military action in Venezuela. All seems a bit chaotic.
November 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Jennifer Griffin's reporting is usually spot on. Not sure what she means by the Ukraine peace deal is linked to impending military action in Venezuela. All seems a bit chaotic.
Fund For Economic Independence, presumably a 501c4 & operated by Steve Roberts, Nicole Kelly & Whitney Richland, is running ads in Iowa. Roberts & Kelly are Holtzman Vogel alumni.
New post: An obscure group based in Virginia says it spent $600,000 to run a positive ad about AG Brenna Bird on Iowa TV and streaming services.
My analysis of the ad and the surprisingly bad poll numbers that that inspired this outside spending:
www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/11/23/c...
My analysis of the ad and the surprisingly bad poll numbers that that inspired this outside spending:
www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/11/23/c...
Conservative group attempted image makeover for Brenna Bird
More than a year before the 2026 election, Bird's polling numbers were bad enough to inspire a well-funded outside rescue mission.
www.bleedingheartland.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Fund For Economic Independence, presumably a 501c4 & operated by Steve Roberts, Nicole Kelly & Whitney Richland, is running ads in Iowa. Roberts & Kelly are Holtzman Vogel alumni.
Very good possibility Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff & Kirill Dmetriev came up with the 28 point peace plan in Miami last month.
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
November 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Very good possibility Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff & Kirill Dmetriev came up with the 28 point peace plan in Miami last month.
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Patel Under Scrutiny for Use of SWAT Teams to Protect His Girlfriend
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:23 PM
When Russ Vought dumped his first wife, he got her a job at the Heritage Foundation. Now he's remarried & she's a real winner!
NEW: It appears Russ Vought has recently married Michelle Martin of Citizens for Renewing America, who is anti "chem trail" and shares vaccine conspiracies.
November 23, 2025 at 7:52 AM
When Russ Vought dumped his first wife, he got her a job at the Heritage Foundation. Now he's remarried & she's a real winner!
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This excellent WSJ annotation of the Molotov/Ribbentrop … sorry, Witkoff/Dmitriev … “peace deal” for Ukraine shows how ridiculously vague and utterly unworkable this thing is
Free link
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
Free link
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
Trump’s Peace Plan for Ukraine, Annotated
Here’s a breakdown of some of the key points in the plan and how Ukraine and its European allies might respond.
www.wsj.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:42 PM
This excellent WSJ annotation of the Molotov/Ribbentrop … sorry, Witkoff/Dmitriev … “peace deal” for Ukraine shows how ridiculously vague and utterly unworkable this thing is
Free link
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
Free link
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
Interesting profile of Kash Patel with some details new to me.
New from me:
Kash Patel is engaged in purges, removal of real accountability, and impunity for loyalists at the FBI.
Researchers told me that these are the exact patterns that create abusive national security organizations under authoritarianism. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
Kash Patel is engaged in purges, removal of real accountability, and impunity for loyalists at the FBI.
Researchers told me that these are the exact patterns that create abusive national security organizations under authoritarianism. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
How the FBI Became the Face of Deprofessionalization
What research tells us about national security under authoritarianism
donmoynihan.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Interesting profile of Kash Patel with some details new to me.
Juicy story about Cory Mills, Tbilisi hookers, a questionable not-for-profit & more!
NEWS: Rep. Cory Mills hired sex workers during the 2021 Afghanistan rescue mission that later became his political calling card, disturbing and potentially endangering his teammates, according to people on the trip.
“It was every night,” one source said. sollenbergerrc.substack.com/p/sex-worker...
“It was every night,” one source said. sollenbergerrc.substack.com/p/sex-worker...
Sex Workers & A Secret Charity: The Story Of Cory Mills’s ‘F*cking Bananas’ Afghanistan Mission
The embattled Florida Republican’s political origin story is shrouded in its own scandal.
sollenbergerrc.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Juicy story about Cory Mills, Tbilisi hookers, a questionable not-for-profit & more!
ABC with a lot more details. Didn't know Ed Martin is "special attorney for mortgage fraud". Apparently, Martin has been conducting his own unauthorized investigation into Adam Schiff. Not that much on Pulte.
abcnews.go.com/US/doj-fbi-p...
abcnews.go.com/US/doj-fbi-p...
November 20, 2025 at 8:15 PM
ABC with a lot more details. Didn't know Ed Martin is "special attorney for mortgage fraud". Apparently, Martin has been conducting his own unauthorized investigation into Adam Schiff. Not that much on Pulte.
abcnews.go.com/US/doj-fbi-p...
abcnews.go.com/US/doj-fbi-p...